Environmental toxins - Fertility disorders

Certain environmental toxins are under suspicion of disrupting and upsetting the endocrine system of both humans and animals. Scientists have been able to prove the existence of these hormone-affecting environmental toxins. The environmental toxins known as endocrine disruptors feminize the male animals and androgenize the female animals. These environmental toxins reduce fertility and are even under suspicion of causing testicular, prostate and breast cancer.

Bisphenol A, for example, is produced in large quantities all over the world. It is mainly absorbed by food stuffs that are in packing which contains the compound. It is for example found in plastic boxes and drink bottles, but also in metal cans and juice cans and even in baby bottles and pacifiers. It has long been suspected that Bisphenol A has similar effects on the human hormones, and that both the male and female reproductive system is impaired by it. Experts however could not agree in regard to the extent of danger, and so a prohibition of the substance remains disputed. Canada however recently classified Bisphenol A as poisonous and has banned it in many products. In France and Denmark, certain children’s products may no longer contain the substance. In Germany and Austria, a ban of the chemical is currently under discussion.

Until now, the causes of infertility were believed to exist predominantly in women. In the last decades however, recognition of the influence of the man on infertility has been steadily increasing. Male infertility may also have its cause in certain influences in the man's environment like for example: drugs, medication, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, radiation, heavy metals (such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic) and pesticides (such as DDT, PCP, HDH).

Organic chlorine compounds like PCP, HCH, HCB, DDT, and PCB can have a significant effect on fertility.

Through their use as solvents or disinfection and preservation agents, we are in contact with it daily. The problem is that it cannot be degraded by the body and it may have toxic effects on all metabolic processes! The path of reproduction is long and offers toxins a lot of possibilities to do harm. The egg cell can be damaged, just as the sperm can be. Unfortunately we know the exact effects of only a fraction of these chemicals.

In unfertile women observed at the Heidelberg Klinik, levels of copper, mercury and lead were particularly high. The level of mercury (Hg) was found to be twice as high in patients with dental fillings made of amalgam than those in patients with no amalgam, pointing to the origin of mercury in many cases.

Using the "DMPS" complexing agent, heavy metals can be expelled from the kidneys and the liver through urine.